Seriously?!?! WTF is wrong with Christmas?

lanie26

Amrice, learn to read sarcasm.

1MusicMaker

misjenn:

Do you realize that your holiday and religion stemmed from hers? What exactly do you know about Hanukkah? Maybe instead of posting on here you could go and ask her about her religion and what view points she has maybe that will open your eyes and hers.

This is kind of out of left field.  You're telling her to study up on Judaism, but her Jewish colleague is fine to completely deny Christmas even exists?  Ummmm....ok.

Amrice78

but reading sarcasm is so hard!

Swannja1

misjenn:

 Maybe instead of posting on here you could go and ask her about her religion and what view points she has maybe that will open your eyes and hers.

Yea' perhaps I should catch this one in the far left field you through it in.

FWIW, I spent an entire summer in Israel as a teenager, learning about others religion and I **gasp** went to synagoge and observed the sabbath the entire time I was there.

My eyes are WIDE open... thank you very much!

eowynmn

lanie26:

LOTR, you remind me of my defensive coworker, to whom everything is a personal attack, & insult.

I bring in cookies, I'm sabotaging her dieting attempts and being ignorant towards vegans. I stay late to finish a report and I'm trying to show off or one up her or suck up. I say "Its' snowing again!" and I'm hoping she slides out on the highway in a mangled wreck on her way home. It's hysterical.

Not everything is a personal assault on you. Chill.

 I didnt' say it was. I was just pointing it out. I'm really not that hot headed right now.  I'm just conversing...
 

Swannja1

By the way... I am backing out of this religious corner some of you are trying to push this post in to when it was not orignally about that.

Kateysomething

Anyone who is striving to shelter their child from another religfion's holiday as if it doesnt exist is a farking coont. That goes for all creeds. It's ignorant, selfish, and dangerous. Unless you truly find that holiday TRULY threatening and dangerous... like a "Kill Catholics Day" or something.

Jessibell

lanie26:

Do you read everything on red alert? That's not at ALL what she was implying.

 

LMFAO.

eowynmn

Jessibell:

lanie26:

Do you read everything on red alert? That's not at ALL what she was implying.

 

LMFAO.

Baaaaa Baaaaaaa 

Jessibell

eowynmn:

Jessibell:

lanie26:

Do you read everything on red alert? That's not at ALL what she was implying.

 

LMFAO.

Baaaaa Baaaaaaa 

No, seriously, I spit out  G2. Something about it just struck me funny. If loving that remark is wrong, I don't want to be right.

lanie26

Someone agreeing with me is a sheep? There you go again. HOly crap I could not live like that.

 

misjenn

Going to synagouge doesn't mean you understand her viewpoint, and a lot of Jews spend time in Isreal. Again doesn't mean you understand the religion. And FWIW I was trying to get you to stop B!tching to random people on the internet and go try and find common ground as to why she doesn't want her child to know/celebrate this holiday.

lanie26

And FWIW I was trying to get you to stop B!tching to random people on the internet and go try and find common ground as to why she doesn't want her child to know/celebrate this holiday.

So just say it. I'd agree with that. But what you wrote before was crazy.

Swannja1

I am Bitching_ about you taking this post out of context! My OP was about how impossible it is for ANYONE to hide Christmas.

By the way, what special powers do you have to know what I do and dont understand?

LukeAndAmanda

I don't know why sheltering your child from knowing about ANYTHING is going to help them more than hurt them. Same for other things as for Christmas. Don't send your child to school when they have to take health class. If you don't tell them about sex or stds or whatever, they won't know or ask! Christmas is about Jesus in our house, not about the present giving and all of the things surrounding it. Do we talk about Santa, and giving being the right thing to do? Yes. Am I going to make sure that's ALL she hears because Fi and I are Christians and dammit she is going to be, too? No. I would love for them to be well educated about all religions. There is nothing bad that comes from making yourself knowledgeable about things.

If you plan on sheltering a child from anything, you're just doing more harm than good. Religion included, is a complete choice, and I won't be making that choice for anyone.